Category: Weirdness

In its latest act of cultural imperial, America's so-called "Black Friday" sales have finally become A Thing in Britain. Forget the NFL matches at Wembley - it is the Wembley branch of ASDA that has seen people going nuts trying to buy stuff at a modest discount, with all of the gusto of our American…

If you're worried about being attacked in the street, then hope to hell that this creation from Japanese artist Shinseungback Kimyonghun gets picked up for manufacture by someone (I bet Samsung would do it). The premise is pretty simple - the jacket is covered with cameras and should you be attacked all you have to…

Have you ever had that thing where after looking up something to buy it will somehow seem to follow you around the web? Googling for a new phone one day turns into endless adverts for phones on every website you visit. It's the same on Facebook - post about something one day, and a few…

We've heard rumour in the past of a crazy unlicensed World of Warcraft amusement park in Changzhou, China, and now we've got visual confirmation that the site exists. And, somewhat surprisingly, it looks pretty awesome. A Reddit user going by…

The ancient Egyptians buried their dead with all manner of trinkets they believed would be needed in the afterlife, from piles of food to clothes and even jewelry. It's a tradition that's set to live on thanks to Swedish audio…

YouTube can be an amazing platform for musicians to showcase their tracks on. Love him or loathe him, Justin Bieber for instance used the video hosting site to find fame, going on to become a worldwide superstar at the…

I woke up today feeling a little down. There was some gap in my life, nay, a hole in the world that needed filling for the good of mankind. Something, some goal that civilisation, mankind collected, hadn't achieved yet. I…

Obiwan Kenobi has been arrested. That's Obiwan Kenobi of Roseville, California, not Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi of Tatooine, "A Galaxy Far, Far Away". It seems Mr Kenobi is responsible for a mini-pile up involving four cars last week. The wannabe…